Art by Joyce Lomax The Black Heritage Museum and Cultural Center bhmacc.org
Joyce Lomax is an Atlanta based artist
Art by Joyce Lomax The Black Heritage Museum and Cultural Center bhmacc.org
The Black Heritage
Museum & Cultural Center, Inc.
Our mission is to document and preserve Black heritage, culture, and scholarship and use it to encourage, empower, and uplift current and future generations through scholarly engagement, art, and artistic expression, while cultivating critical thought.
BHMACC's Young People's Forum
They are from age 8 to 21
this is their platform because they believe that another world is possible.
It is up to us to help them make it so.
BHMACC's Social Justice and
Young People's Forum Platform:
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Equal Protection for all
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Ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment
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Safe Communities; Air, Water, Soil, and Infrastructure
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Change all policies to reflect Vulnerabilities of children, the elderly, and those with compromised health (First do no harm, the precautionary Principle
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Elimination of Nuclear and all fossil fuels for energy production
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Reconfigure and Secure all Power Grids
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Power Grids Local and community owned with community consensus
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All commercial energy must be renewable (Codify no fossil fuels or nuclear, with high penalties when violated, no market-based solutions, no swaps.)
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Safe, High-speed, eco-friendly public transportation
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Universal healthcare (no Exceptions, No Exclusions)
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Full Public health services for all U.S. residents
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Free public education thru Post-Secondary education
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Universal Free ad Healthy Breakfast and Lunch for all School children
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Decoupling Public education services from property taxes. Each student's public education services and resources funded at the same level
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Eliminate all student loan debt
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Transparent retraining of police and other law enforcement including Psychological evaluations
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Demilitarize all domestic police forces
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abolish ICE
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Reparations for descendants of all enslaved by America
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Restoration and honoring of all Native American Treaties
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Require a full understanding of Federal and State budget processes, both mandatory and discretionary
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Full understanding of pentagon Budget and Funding
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Constitution and bill of rights training and understanding
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Promote the general welfare of all U.S. residents
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Understanding providing for the common defense of the U.S. and the difference between funding national defense and funding militarization
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understanding how the U.S. justice system functions at all levels and the relevance of the judiciary
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Green communities design and build
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Access to fresh, safe food for all communities
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Ban GMOs and Pesticides
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Ban Factory Farms
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Industrial and corporate responsibility for and and all cleanups, paying their fair share, and closing all loopholes.
Drafted from a Young People's Forum leadership meeting
12/25/2019.
Present:
Adana Din Mustafa
Aneisa Mustafa-Reid
Angelica Valentin
Indi Valentin
Soloman Mustafa-Reid
Zenobia Mustafa
Dianne Valentin
Ayanna Mustafa-Reid
Rashida Valentin
There are a number of Our programs that we would love to bring forward in support of this platform. "I am Not Reference Man" is Just one of them that needs support. Help us make it so.